Pedaling like a Tour de France winner is a losing strategy for most of us

(University of Oxford) Pedaling like Chris Froome or Alberto Contador might seem appealing, but researchers have found that for most of us it's likely to reduce rather than improve our cycling performance. That's an incidental finding from a project by Oxford University's Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences aimed at improving calculations estimating VO2Max, a common measure of aerobic fitness.